Performance art event at IUSB

April 21, 2006|Tribune Staff Report

SOUTH BEND -- The public is invited to a free artistic event Wednesday at Indiana University South Bend as part of the yearlong "Mutable Body" campus theme. The event will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the patio outside the Administration Building cafeteria. (It will be held inside the northeast corner of the cafeteria in case of inclement weather.) The first part of the event will involve setting up several painting easels in a circle with two clothed models in the center. Participants, including the public, will be invited to paint a third of a body without seeing the other two-thirds. The concept is related to the surrealistic approach to art. The public may observe the second part of the event, which will involve covered human bodies being coated with paint and applied to paper to create depictions of human forms.